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Saturday, 8 December 2012

Colouring Sugarpaste and Flowerpaste

Unless you're covering a cake all in white, you'll need coloured sugarpaste. You may also need coloured flowerpaste too, depending what you're decorating your covered cake with.
The difference between sugarpaste and flowerpaste:

Sugarpaste (or rolled fondant) is ready to roll icing used for covering cakes and making some edible models.

Flowerpaste (or gumpaste) dries much harder than sugarpaste and is used for making sugar flowers and other decorations. It is also more gummy than sugarpaste, and can be rolled out thinner to obtain finer details.

Pre-coloured sugarpaste and flowerpaste is available from good cake decorating suppliers, but it can be quite costly, especially if you have a lot of coloured icing on your cake.

You can colour white ready to roll icing to virtually any colour yourself to keep costs down.

However, bear in mind that it takes a bit of effort to work colour into your sugarpaste or flowerpaste.

You may find your shoulders, arms and hands start to ache quite quickly!